1. Voltage-Induced Bistability of Single Spin-Crossover Molecules in a Two-Dimensional Monolayer
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Marie-Laure Boillot, Jérôme Lagoute, Kaushik Bairagi, Massine Kelai, Amandine Bellec, Vincent Repain, Yongfeng Tong, Yann Girard, Sylvie Rousset, Talal Mallah, Cristian Enachescu, Laboratoire Matériaux et Phénomènes Quantiques (MPQ (UMR_7162)), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Institut de Chimie Moléculaire et des Matériaux d'Orsay (ICMMO), Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași [Romania], and European Project: 766726,211587,COSMICS(2017)
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Materials science ,Spintronics ,Spin states ,Bistability ,Relaxation (NMR) ,[CHIM.MATE]Chemical Sciences/Material chemistry ,Molecular physics ,law.invention ,Spin crossover ,law ,Monolayer ,[PHYS.COND.CM-MS]Physics [physics]/Condensed Matter [cond-mat]/Materials Science [cond-mat.mtrl-sci] ,General Materials Science ,Physical and Theoretical Chemistry ,Scanning tunneling microscope ,Spin-½ - Abstract
International audience; Bistable spin-crossover molecules are particularly interesting for the development of innovative electronic and spintronic devices as they present two spin states that can be controlled by external stimuli. In this paper, we report the voltage-induced switching of the high spin/low spin electronic states of spin-crossover molecules self-assembled in dense 2D networks on Au(111) and Cu(111) by scanning tunneling microscopy at low temperature. On Au(111), voltage pulses lead to the nonlocal switching of the molecules from any─high or low─spin state to the other followed by a spontaneous relaxation toward their initial state within minutes. On the other hand, on Cu(111), single molecules can be addressed at will. They retain their new electronic configuration after a voltage pulse. The memory effect demonstrated on Cu(111) is due to an interplay between long-range intermolecular interaction and molecule/substrate coupling as confirmed by mechanoelastic simulations.
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- 2021
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